Towards the Observation of Hawking Radiation in Bose–Einstein Condensates

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0301615XzbMATH Open1042.83018arXivgr-qc/0110036OpenAlexW2034701454WikidataQ59619704 ScholiaQ59619704MaRDI QIDQ4459745FDOQ4459745

Matt Visser, S. Liberati, C. Barceló

Publication date: 18 May 2004

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Acoustic analogues of black holes (dumb holes) are generated when a supersonic fluid flow entrains sound waves and forms a trapped region from which sound cannot escape. The surface of no return, the acoustic horizon, is qualitatively very similar to the event horizon of a general relativity black hole. In particular Hawking radiation (a thermal bath of phonons with temperature proportional to the ``surface gravity) is expected to occur. In this note we consider quasi-one-dimensional supersonic flow of a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) in a Laval nozzle (converging-diverging nozzle), with a view to finding which experimental settings could magnify this effect and provide an observable signal. We identify an experimentally plausible configuration with a Hawking temperature of order 70 n K; to be contrasted with a condensation temperature of the order of 90 n K.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0110036

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Black holes (83C57)

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• Unexpectedly large surface gravities for acoustic horizons?
• Hawking Radiation in the Laboratory

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• Black holes in Bose--Einstein condensates
• Thermality of the Hawking flux
• Quasi-particle creation by analogue black holes
• Analogue gravity
• Survey of Analogue Spacetimes
• On dumb holes and their gravity duals
• Entropy of sonic black hole in the brick wall approach
• Understanding Hawking Radiation from Simple Models of Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Hawking Radiation in the Laboratory
• Explicit formulae for surface gravities in stationary circular axi-symmetric spacetimes
• Simulation of an acoustic black hole in a Laval nozzle
• Analogue models of and for gravity

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